The Apple Tree: Thoughts of an Estelle: Money

Friday, July 2, 2010

As I've become more financially independent this summer, I've come to see the value of a dollar.

A dollar can buy a cheap pack of spearmint gum.

A dollar can quench my thirst with a tiny 12-ounce bottle of dragon fruit vitamin water.

A dollar can cover the medical and basic living costs of a child in a third-world country for one day.

This summer, I hope to find a healthy balance in how I spend my money: on personal luxuries and/or donations to humanitarian organizations.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,"

Says the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,

And do not return there,

But water the earth,

And make it bring forth and bud,

That it may give seed to the sower

And bread to the eater,

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to me void.

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."

~Isaiah 55:8-11~